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22 May 1913. Foundered on Lake Huron, in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The James C. Carruthers was a 550-foot-long (170 m) Canadian freighter that foundered in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. 44°48′04″N82°23′49″W / 44.801°N 82.397°W / 44.801; -82.397 (SS James Carruthers) SS Henry B. Smith. 1906. 10 November 1913.
The Great Lakes (French: Grands Lacs ... The largest Lake Erie bloom to date occurred in 2015, ... Still missing are the two last warships to sink in the Great Lakes, ...
SS Badger is a passenger and vehicle ferry in the United States that has been in service on Lake Michigan since 1953. Currently, the ship shuttles between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a distance of 62 miles (100 km), connecting U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) between those two cities. She is the last coal-fired passenger vessel ...
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14 ...
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the Big Blow, [3][a] the Freshwater Fury and the White Hurricane, was a blizzard with hurricane -force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Canada, between November 7 and 10, 1913. The storm was most powerful on November 9 ...
The Eisenhower Locks in Massena, New York St. Lawrence Seaway St. Lawrence Seaway separated navigation channel near Montreal. The St. Lawrence Seaway (French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth ...
The system moved across the Great Basin with moderate depth on November 26 and November 27, then east-northeastward across the Great Lakes on November 28. Fresh east winds were forecast for the Great Lakes for the afternoon and evening of November 27, [ 13 ] with storm warnings were in effect by the morning of November 28. [ 14 ]
Lake Agassiz (/ ˈæɡəsi / AG-ə-see) was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined. [2]